Nick Rahall: “I thank the gentleman from New York for yielding. I rise in support of the gentlelady from West Virginia's amendment…”

“I thank the gentleman from New York for yielding. I rise in support of the gentlelady from West Virginia's amendment; let me state that at the very beginning. My only concerns here were attaching an economic analysis amendment to the pending legislation which is directed at the Clean Water Act interpretations. The pending amendment by the gentlelady from West Virginia--which as I say, I support--would appear to me to more broaden the direction in which this bill goes, which I think detracts from the original intent of the legislation to zero in on clean water issues. The gentlelady's amendment should be properly--I believe it is--the subject of another stand-alone bill that's been introduced in this body to judge the economic analysis. That legislation I support as well. I might add, in addition, that I brought this issue up with Cass Sunstein, who is the head of the White House Office of Regulatory Review, whose job it is to determine and to examine the economic analysis of regulations that come out of the Federal agencies. That is the White House Office of Regulatory Review's jurisdiction, not EPA's jurisdiction, as the gentlelady has paraphrased the EPA administrator; and as we've all heard her say, job repercussions is not necessarily part of her job description.…”